Narrating Science: The Power of Stories in the 21st Century

24 May – 27 May 2017

Toronto, Canada

Join us in Toronto for three days of discussions and readings with scholars, creative
writers, and scientists.

In the latter decades of
the twentieth century, discourses on science and technology began to spread
beyond the professional communities of scientific experts involved in knowledge
production. In the cultural realm, we saw the rise of the “popular science”
genre, of science series and documentaries on TV, and, around the turn of the
millennium, an increase in the amount, depth, and quality of attention paid to
science in literary and mainstream fiction. How do these stories about science
contribute to understandings of scientific processes and issues of societal
concern such as climate change, genetic engineering, nuclear physics,
evolution, concepts of cognition, pharmaceutics, and nuclear power?

The Narrating Science
conference brings together scholars, writers, and scientists to examine how
storytelling about science across a spectrum of genres and media----fiction and
non-fiction, print and film--is engaging scientific concepts and facts,
practice and practitioners, institutions and societal impacts.

Registration

There is no conference fee, but space is limited. Online registration is
now closed. If
you would like to attend, please send a note detailing your background
and interests to Susan Gaines at smgaines@uni-bremen.de
and we will try to fit you in.